Badge or button.



1. D. HEIMSOTH & F. A. NIEMANN.

BADGE 0R BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED :UNE 21.1912;

wanted oct. 24,1916.

'WlTFM @TATE JOHN DIEDRICH HEMSO'EH ANI) FREDERCK ADOLPH NIEVINN, OFCHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BADGE 0R BUTTON.

Application filed June 27, 1912.

To all 'whom t may concern.'

lie it known that we, JOHN D. HnrMsoTr-r and Fnennnion A.. Nimh-inn,citizens of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful improvementin Badges or Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in buttons or badges.

The object of the invention is to provide a button or badge havinginterchangeable letters or other sign characters and adapted for useasfraternal order buttons, campaign buttons or badges, high schoolbuttons, class buttons, etc.

Another object of the invention is to provide a button of the type aboveindicated, which may be used at different times for different purposeswithout the necessity of buying a new button each time it is desired fora different purpose.

The invention furthermore consists in the improvements in the parts anddevices and in the novel combination of parts and devices hereinshown,described or claimed.

In the drawing forming apart of this specification, Figure 1 is anelevation of a button or badge embodying our improvements, the samebeing shown as applied to a coat lapel. Fig. 2 is a sectional view, uponan enlarged scale, taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 areside-elevations of two of 'thefmembers composing the button. Fig. 5 is adetail, perspective view of one of the members adapted to be providedwith a letter or othersign-character, and Fig. 6 shows our improvementsadapted to be attached tothe clothing in the manner of a pin.

In the drawing, 10 denotes the main portion or base plate of the button,the same being in the form of a sector of a circle and provided with anarcuate depressed portion or groove 11 around the outer edge, having aninner shoulder 12, an outer shoulder 13 and end shoulders 14, 14. Inthis arcuate groove 11 is adapted to be seated a plurality ofkeystone-shaped, letter or other character carrying members 15, each ofsaid members 15 having its sides formed on radii passing through thecenter of the arcuate groove or recess 11, and having its outer andinner edges concentric with the outer and inner shoulders 13 and 12,respectively, of the groove. Each of these letter or other Specificationof Letters Patent.

- are supplied to the trade in Patented @et 24, 1916. serial No.706,204.

character carrying members 15, which are relatively short, stili' andpreferably made of Celluloid., is provided on one face with a letter orother character, and is left blank onits opposite face, although somemembers may be provided with letters on both faces, and some of themembers left blank on both faces, and due to the shape of these members15, it will be obvious that the same maybeplaced in the groove 11 eitherwith their letters exposed or with the blank faces turned outwardly.rlhe base plate 10 is so constructed as to carry and retain any numberdesired of the members 15, that in the drawing being shown as adapted tocontain twelve. rFliese letter carrying members 15 quantities, andprovidedL with all the letters of the alphabet, and as will be obvious,they may be arranged4 and so disposed in the groove 11 as to spell anyword, name or group of initials as desired, and these members are eachindependently removable and reversible when the clamp plate is removed.These letter carrying members 15, after having been properly positionedin the groove 11 are held in place by a suitable cap piece or clampingmember 16, the same being of a sector formation, but of smaller radiusthan the base plate 10, and having a screw 17 soldered or otherwisesecured thereto, and adapted to pass thro-ugh a. hole 18 in the member10 and held in place by means of a lock-nut in the form of a threadeddisk 19. The screw 17 may be made long enough so as Ato take through abutton hole 2O in a coat lapel, and the button is adapted to be retainedin place as by means of a thumb nut 21, the latter being concaved, sothat where the screw 17 is passed through a thick piece of wearingapparel, as shown in Fig. 1, the thumb nut will be applied as thereshown, but if the coat or other material to which the button is attachedis of lesser thickness, the thumb nut will be reversed so as to alwayshave the end of the screw 17 below the plane of the outer surface of thenut.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen that the one screw 17cooperates with the disk 19, and the nut 2l in holding the clampingmember in position and the button or badge in the button hole.

In order to prevent the button or badge from rotating or Working out ofits proper position after the same is applied to the Wearing apparel,the member is provided with a pair of spaced, sharp projections 22, 22,adapted to stick into the cloth. Both of the members 10 and 16 may beformed by stamping, and if desired, the clamp plate 16 may be suitablyornamented or lithographed to represent any object desired, the clampplate, as shown in the drawing, being provided with a convex centerportion 23 and a plurality of rays 2-1 to represent the rising sun.Where it is desired to attach the button to the wearing apparel at otherplaces than through button holes, as for instance, when it is desired touse the button as a suiiragette badge, the button may be provided with asafety pin arrangement 25, as shown in Fig. 5.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen that the button or badgemay be manufactured at relatively small expense and may be used anyVnumber of times for dierent purposes by merely interchanging th-e lettervcarrying members or by substituting other members 15, having differentletters than those already carried by the button.

We claim 1. A button of the character described adapted to be attachedto Wearing apparel,

comprising, in combination: a sector-shaped base plate provided With anarcuate groove; a plurality of interchangeable, removable members, atleast one of which is provided With a letter or other symbol and all ofwhich are adapted to be seated in said groove;'a clamping plate forretaining said m'embers in position in the groove; and means forattaching the button to wearing apparel, said means including a screwsecured to said clamping plate and adapted to pass through a button holeand a nut coperating with the screw, substantially as specified.

2. A button of the character described and adapted to be attached towearing apparel, comprising a base plate provided with a groove, aAremovable character bearing Copies of this patentmay be obtained formember disposed in said groove, said member being lettered or providedwith a symbol and being readily interchangeable with other members oflike shape, a removable clamping plate, means securing said clampingplate to said base member in position to hold said character bearingmember in place, and means on the rear of said base member for securingsaid button to the wearing apparel` 3. A button of the characterdescribed adapted to be attached to wearing apparel comprising, incombination: a base plate having a recess provided with a groove; aremovable member provided with a letter or other symbol adapted to beseated in said groove and interchangeable for other members of likeshape; a clamp plate for retaining said member in position in thegroove; and means for attaching the button to wearing apparel, saidmeans including a screw fixed to said clamp plate and extended throughsaid recess in the base plate and adapted also to pass through abutton-hole and a nut cooperating with said screw, substantially asspecified.

4. A button of the character described and adapted to be attached towearing apparel, com'iprising a base plate having a recess provided witha groove, a removable member provided with a letter or other symboladapted to be seated in said groove and interchangeable for othermembers of like shape, a clamping plate ior retaining said member insaid groove, and means ior attaching the button to wearing apparel, saidmeans including an element iixed to the clamping plate and extendingthrough said recess in the base plate and adapted to cngage the garmentof a wearer, substantially as specified.

JOHN DIEDRICH HEIMSOTH. FREDERICK ADOLPH NIEMANN.

' Vitnesses:

PEARL ABRAMs, H. M. MUNDAY.

ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

